Word: spain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Spain of the Sixties. Individually the countries may seem too exasperating and unimportant to bother about. Their per capita income (with the exception of Malaysia) averages between $50 and $100 a year; their illiteracy rate is 30% or 40% ; their political stability is about as solid as a bamboo in a breeze. Yet taken as a whole, they matter greatly. Says a veteran U.S. foreign officer in Hong Kong: "Southeast Asia is the Spain of the 1960s. If we can't and don't win here, how can any friend of ours believe we can win anywhere...
...Spain's bid for associate membership in the Common Market was at stake, and el Caudillo was willing to relax his autocratic grip a bit in order to convince the Eurocrats of his sincerity. Last week in Brussels, on the eve of the 25th-anniversary celebration of Franco's Civil War victory, Spain's two-year-old application finally got a hearing...
Priming the Pump. Spain's advocates could point out that Franco had really tried. Reluctantly admitting that his country could not achieve economic maturity outside the Common Market, he embarked on a deliberate policy of liberalization. Press censorship was eased; reactionary Falangist ministers were replaced by more open-minded officials; a recent trial of 33 political prisoners was held before a civilian rather than a military court-and some prisoners were even acquitted...
...division of Judaism into Sephardi and Ashkenazi communities dates back to the Middle Ages, when Spain and Germany were the main centers of Jewish culture. The Jews in Spain were known as the Sephardim (Spanish in Hebrew) and the German Jews were called the Ashkenazim (German in Hebrew). The differences between the two are mostly in custom and culture. For example, during Passover, the Ashkenazim are forbidden to eat rice and beans, while the Sephardim may eat both...
...crew hung around the Carpetbaggers set for two weeks, and the wait paid off even more: they were there and shooting when a chandelrer on which Carroll Baker was swinging pulled out of the ceiling and crashed to the floor. A battling horde of Romans and Persians, practicing in Spain's Guadarra-mas for Samuel Bronston's The Fall of the Roman Empire, parts momentarily as someone drives through the battle in his Fiat sedan. Bronston hops about, small and spiffy, like the little man who was once the mascot of Esquire magazine. His spectaculars turn...